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( PLAYER INFORMATION )

Name: Anju
Contact: rattitude rattitude
Are you over 17?: Yes!
Characters in Forest Covered: Nope!

( CHARACTER INFORMATION )

Name/Work Name: Takane "Ene" Enomoto // Aoi
Canon: Kagerou Project
Canon Point: Exsilium ENDGAME. Her canon point in Exsilium was just after having fun with everyone at the amusement park and spotting Konoha.
AU/CRAU: Exsilium CRAU
Age: 19, give or take.
History: Ene's Wiki Page
Personality:
ON THE OUTSIDE >>

Makekushi Dan member number six, otherwise known as Ene, is as stated clearly more than once, is a very selfish, cruel, and mysterious person. She has a huge personality that doesn't seem like it can be contained in one body. She is loud, manipulative, and goes to great lengths to get her way, often black mail or genuine torment. As a cyber being, she is constantly living within Shintaro Kisaragi's computer or phone and following him wherever he goes, whether he likes it or not. And no matter how much he tries to remove her from his presence, she stays very stubbornly by his side, never telling him a thing about herself and yet seeming to understand everything about him. This is Ene, The mysterious virus who calls him "master", yet never listens to him, who came out of nowhere to live on his computer and to never be deleted. Who makes his life hell every single day.

Most mornings, Shintaro will receive a very rude awakening. Whether it's the loudest siren she can find at the loudest possible volume his computer can handle, or the joyful sound of his computer malfunctioning, Ene always finds new ways to keep him on his toes. She is a great big ball of energy, never sleeping and never keeping quiet. Unless of course, keeping quiet means that she can catch her "master" doing something horribly embarrassing for her to share with everyone. She is very prone to black mail and manipulation, often theatening to release his information and very secret folders to his family or for the whole world to see. And if he happens to start yelling at her for her antics? She does not hesitate to use crocodile tears in order to guilt him into letting her do what she wants.

More importantly than anything, Ene always seems to have the main goal of getting Shintaro, the hikiNEET who has lived within his room for two years straight without seeing the light of day, to go outside. Although she will never outright force him or manipulate him into going out into the world, she will always offhandedly mention that the day is nice for going out, or that it might be fun to visit the beach! Even if he always laughs off her attempts to get him to leave his hikiNEET life, she never seems to stop trying. Although she never says it outright, it seems that she's trying to pull him along to improve his mode of living. This seems to be one of the only things that she won't push, even if it's one of the more important things in his life. Another thing that she never seems to ask about or mention is Shintaro's past. Even though it seems like an obvious thing for anyone to ask about, she won't ask why he's staying at home, or why he cries at night. Though it doesn't necessarily seem like she doesn't know why already. 

Towards those who are not Shintaro Kisaragi, Ene is still quite energetic and loud. However, she is usually far more subdued, allowing everyone else to talk rather than joining into the conversation herself. And when she does talk, it's usually to make some sort of rude remark about her master. However, she does enjoy talking to people one on one, and definitely loves to tease them as well. The thing is, even with Shintaro, she was quite shy when she first met him. She would occasionally make the annoying remark, but she was actually quite a nice little addition to his computer for the first few weeks of their relationship. It's the same thing with everyone else. It seems like she enjoys sitting back and listening to everyone, and getting to know them before she really starts making fun of them. However, her prime target always has been, and likely always will be Shintaro. 

There are a few things that will make Ene mad, however. If someone happens to pry into her past or make fun of her cybernetic body and inability to do things that someone with a physical body can, she tends to throw small tantrums. Although she never explains why, she will amp up her torments tenfold, and even start yelling. It seems that, although not uncomfortable with her body, she is somewhat frustrated by her inability to visit places like the amusement park and to use things like sun block. When Shintaro does get the chance to go outside, and usually visit the mall, Ene will always insist that they go to the amusement park on top of it. No matter how much he insists that there's no way she can fully enjoy it, she is always very excited to go on the rides. Even if she only lives within a phone. It's because of her inability to go to these places that she's very curious about the outside world, often watching the news or reading in order to give unnecessary updates. 

All together, Ene is a strange existence. No one knows where she came from, and she most certainly won't tell anyone no matter how curious they are. She seems to always be with Shintaro, even though sometimes it looks like they both hate each other. However, when it comes to him meeting people and making friends, she never gets in the way of that. Rather, she seems very proud and excited whenever he's meeting new people. It's only when she meets a certain boy called Konoha that she balks and asks that they go back home, and yet still won't answer anyone why. She is indeed mysterious, and very elusive. And when it comes to Ene, there is definitely more than meets the eye. 

ON THE INSIDE >>

Despite her energetic and painfully "pleasant" demeanor, Ene has a lot going on within herself that she doesn't let anyone know about. Although she does enjoy her digital body, there are many things she wished she could have enjoyed when she was still alive. The most obvious example being the rides in the amusement park, and the joy of being at the beach. However, she never admits that she was once human, and chooses to let everyone believe that she is a simple virus that found her way to Shintaro's computer. The reason for this, sadly enough, is that she's trying to erase herself, and become someone that can pull Shintaro along and make sure he, the last person she has left, doesn't disappear just like everyone else. 

When Ene was a human, she was a very unpleasant, awkward, and stubborn girl named Takane Enomoto. Because she suffered from a sleeping disorder that caused her to fall asleep at random and never achieve restful sleep, she was always cranky. Of course, this also meant that she had very few friends, and she always found herself in the hospital. Because of this, she was placed in a special class upon being enrolled in high school even though she wasn't exactly pleased about it. In this tiny science room that smelled constantly of formaldehyde, there was only one other student, a frail boy named Haruka Kokonose. Somehow, he was even more awkward and bad at making friends than she was, and it seemed that he had an illness that was far worse than hers, to the point that he might die if her were to have a sudden attack. This tiny class was taught by quite possibly the worst teacher in the world (according to Ene): Kenjirou Tateyama. 

For the first year of high school, she spent all of her time learning in this tiny classroom and forming a friendship with Haruka. Because it was the first friendship she had been able to form and keep without scaring him off, she became very protective of the little bond they had. She wouldn't even tell him about her obsession with gory videogames, and always tried to act her coolest around him. What she had feared more than anything at that time had been that he might discover what a loser she is and reject her completely. However, Kenjirou saw to it that all of her secrets were revealed in no time, and Haruka accepted her entirely. This was the point in their friendship where Ene realized that she was starting to feel something that was a little more than friendship towards this awkward, ditzy boy.

As the school festival approached, they teamed together to create a shooting game that the school could enjoy. It turned out that Haruka was a good artist, and Kenjirou was an excellent programmer, so they banded together to create a first person shooter that Takane could play against other students as a sort of challenge. Because she was so good at video games, it was hardly a challenge for her to defeat everyone who approached her, including the programmer himself.  And after her secret identity as "Ene the Lightning Dancer", the legendary DEAD BULLET player who placed second in a national tournament was revealed to all the big time gamers in the area, their booth became the most popular in the school, much to her ultimate dismay. Luckily, as the festival started to wind to a close, they dispersed, and as Ene was preparing to let the next player win, a young Shintaro Kisaragi (final year in middle school) and Ayano Tateyama entered the room. 

Having heard that the legendary player was playing, he decided to check it out. Being an excellent gamer himself, he thought he'd at least ease some of his boredom. After belittling her playing style and then properly riling her up, Ene vowed that she wouldn't lose to him and even promised that if she were to lose, she'd call him "Master" and do whatever it is that he wanted. Of course, to her surprise, she did lose, and after insulting her once more and telling her to forget about the "master" thing, he left the room without claiming his prize. This was how she met Shintaro, and where she got the idea to call him Master once she became a digital being. They had a rocky relationship right from the start, mediated by the sweet Ayano Tateyama and the kindhearted Haruka Kokonose. 

As Takane and Haruka entered their first year of high school, Ayano and Shintaro entered their first, and the four of them formed together to create a small group of friends who ate on the roof every day like your typical high school anime. Although Takane had a very low opinion of Shintaro, she was very excited and glad to have made her first female friend in Ayano. They often talked about nonsense, and Ayano would quietly listen while she ranted about Haruka. Takane couldn't enjoy anything more than being friends with her. These were the happy days that Ene will always wish she had more time to experience. However, that life was never meant to last, and that became evident when Haruka started having frequent attacks keeping him out of school for weeks and months at a time. 

Because of his easygoing attitude, it was easy for Takane to forget just how sick Haruka actually was, and she became increasingly worried and protective over him. And as summer break (and August 15th) drew near, they both began their summer classes. Takane was never very good in school and thus attended them alongside the actually very brilliant Haruka, who needed to make up days missed in school. At this particular point in her life, she was constantly excited to talk to him, even though she always seemed angry to see him. Her heart did funny things whenever he smiled, and even though she wouldn't admit it, she liked him a lot. However, that didn't mean that she never gave him a hard time. During one fateful day on August 15th, Haruka was playing her video game next to her in order to encourage her to finish her homework. It, however, had the opposite effect, and only caused her to grow angry and ignore him. She put on her trusty headphones, and turned away from him, giving him the silent treatment in hopes that he'd realize the folly of his ways and pay attention to her. 

After ignoring him for far too long without a single complaint from him, she turned her head to see why he wasn't talking to her, and found that he had fallen unconscious. While ignoring him, he had experienced an attack, and she was too stupid to notice it. Luckily(?), their teacher came in to get him to the hospital, while Takane followed them, feeling absolutely helpless. He might be dying, and it was all her fault! To this current day, she feels more guilty about this than anything. She had ignored him. Did he hate her now? Did she really deserve to stay by his side? As it turned out, she would never actually find out the answers to these questions. This incident is the reason behind her protectiveness of Shintaro, and constant vigilance over his well being. There's no way that she's going to allow something like that to happen ever again. 

Once Haruka was stabilized, Takane, still tearful but relieved that he was okay, volunteered to run back to the classroom to get his things. She couldn't bear to be in the same room as him when he woke up, even though she usually was no matter what. On her way back, she met with Ayano, who was also taking summer classes. Here, they had a conversation that would stick with Ene for years to come.  Essentially, she revealed that she liked Shintaro, but wasn't "good enough" for him. He needed someone far more energetic than her, someone who could pull him along and be more selfish than him. Although she didn't understand this right away, it helped shape the person that she would become in the future. At this time, Ayano also told her that she should follow her feelings, since she might not always have the chance to tell Haruka what she needs to tell him.

Finally, with that conversation with Ayano, Takane realized that she loved Haruka, and wanted to be by his side more than anything. However, it was not to be... Because while she was running to to finally go and tell him how she felt, she collapsed too. It's unsure if she collapsed from the same poison that Haruka received, but she collapsed, and she never did wake up. The last thing she saw was her teacher, Kenjirou Tateyama. When she awoke, she was a digital being, watching the world from behind a screen and having to travel from device to device via internet. Here, she saw that Kenjirou had her body as well as Haruka's, and seemed to be doing some sort of experiment with them. She was almost deleted, however, and had to escape before she got to find out what was truly going on. All of her trust for Kenjirou died that day. She didn't know at the time what was truly going on with him, so she simply promised to herself that she would fix this somehow. 

It took her a year to get used to this new digital body and eventually find her way to Shintaro Kisaragi's computer. She found out that Ayano had also died on that day, and that Shintaro was completely alone. He was all that she had left, and she was all he had left in return. During the year she spent on her journey, he had become a shut-in, never leaving the confines of her room. Because of what Ayano told her at that time, she changed her identity, throwing away the name Takane and simply becoming Ene, who was more energetic and more selfish than anyone else in the world. Because he was all that she had left, she would protect him. She would make sure that no more tragedy would take the last thing she had left away from her. She wouldn't ignore him the way that she ignored Haruka, and she would drag him along just as Ayano would have wanted. Although she never made the promise directly to Ayano herself, she felt it was her duty to take care of him. 

After spending a year with Shintaro, constantly tormenting him and distracting him from the dark thoughts and guilt that ail him, she's become very attached to him. No matter where he goes, she follows him, and never leaves him alone from the moment he wakes up to the moment that he falls asleep. She's taken it upon herself to take care of him, and quite honestly doesn't know what else to do with herself anymore besides that. She can't go back to being her old self, and she doesn't have anything else. Because of this, she doesn't reach out to other people very often, most of the time opting to stay near Shintaro at all times. The only time that she leaves him alone is when he finally starts to make other friends, and meets someone that resembles Haruka's original game character, Konoha. At first believing him to be Haruka, she is very glad to see him and even breaks character to talk to him. However, he isn't Haruka. Or at least... he doesn't seem to remember her at all. Devastated, she'll usually refuse to be anywhere near him even if Shintaro is with him. It's too painful. 

In conclusion, Ene has many layers. Her top layer, which is the mask she shows to everyone around her, is basically one gigantic lie. It's a formed identity based around what Shintaro needs in a friend. Underneath, she is very lost, and quite confused, and constantly running away from the past yet stuck within it. Because Shintaro is all she has left, and she is all he has left, she stays painfully loyally by his side, protecting him and pushing him to the best of her ability. She's not very smart, and she doesn't know what to do with herself other than be unnecessarily mean to Shintaro Kisaragi and quite often his friends. When it comes to moving on from the past, Ene has made steps, but she still has a long way to go. 

Debt: Given one wish that would come true no matter what, Ene would definitely be very uncertain of her decision. However, upon some thought and some very enticing words, her choice is for Haruka Kokonose to have another chance at life with a healthy body. For this wish, she would willingly sign her name away.

Suitability: Although at first Ene would be very apprehensive and even a little angry since she had no idea of the work she'd be doing or for how long, she wouldn't rebel as strongly as you'd think. Because her wish is for Haruka, she would grudgingly carry on, even if the work is a little degrading. However, as Ene is prone to complaining, there's no doubt that there will be at least a few instances where she throws herself to the floor and whines about it. Ene will work hard, but she most certainly won't be without her share of laziness.

Previous Game Info: Exsilium, a game based in a dystopian future where what's left of the world has been taken over by the totalitarian United Earth. Characters brought into the game were dumped on a Prison Island where they were supposed to rally together and use the powers they had, as well as the weapons given to them to rebel against the United Earth and save what's left of this world, as well as their very own. They utilized time travel and strategy, and eventually won. Ene first joined when they were still on the island, and kept mostly to her cast. She was very excited to have legs and to be able to eat as much as she wanted. Her weapon there allowed her to put her conscious mind into anything technological, and could travel freely between devices as long as they were connected to the internet, leaving her body behind in a sort of comatose state.

After the world was destroyed and they were transferred to a space station in order to save it, Ene once more kept mostly to her castmates, particularly Shintaro. Watching the Earth explode did not sit well with her. And when they were finally able to bring the Earth back and inevitably save the world from the United Earth, Ene opted to stay with her friends, wherever they may go. And this is the point she'll be taken from in Forest Covered.

Major CR formed would be with her castmates, particularly Kano Shuuya. She's still a little bitter towards him for locking her in her tablet, even if he wasn't himself then. And other CR include Kanaya from Homestuck, who taught her to shoot a gun, and Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion, who became her first friend in Exsilium. She spoke to many other people, trolling to her heart's content, but never formed too many bonds. Despite her outgoing nature, Ene remains a very introverted girl, sticking mostly to what she knows.

Inventory: Seeing as she's coming straight from Exsilium, she'll have her blue oversized jersey, her black skirt, and a pair of very long black and blue boots. Also on her person would be the tablet that they were given as communicative devices, which I assume would be nonfunctional. Lastly, she'd have her headphones, which in Exsilium served as her weapon that allowed her to travel from device to device given that it was connected to the internet-- Which due to recent canon, is now obsolete, but she'll...definitely have it...

Abilities, Strengths, and Weaknesses:
ABILITIES >>

In the world of Kagerou Project, if you die on August 15th along with someone that you're close to, you'll very likely enter the Kagerou Daze. Two years before her current canon point, she died, and her mind and body were separated. Her real body remains in a comatose state without her mind to control it, while she became digital. It's revealed that she can move back into her body at will, and then become digital again. This ability, called "Opening Eyes", sends her mind elsewhere, saving her from being deleted and being killed. In spirit, at least. 

STRENGTHS >>

Ene is very adept at playing video games. She was second in the country at Dead Bullet back in the day! Other than that, she's very good at reading a person and finding their mental weak points in order to exploit them and cause them critical misery. Her favorite target is Shintaro Kisaragi, but she'll occasionally go for others as well. One more ability to note would be her ability to lie right to your face. She's created an entirely new persona since the time that she died, and she's become very good at being someone that she isn't.

WEAKNESSES >>

Having just recently gained the ability to walk again, Ene has very low physical ability. She loves to exude energy, but ultimately cannot go far without having to rest like a total loser. Her main weakness though, and the only thing that's able to break through the farce she's created, would be her past. Particularly any mention of Ayano Tatemiya and Haruka Kokonose is enough to cause her shell to crack. And Konoha's appearance is enough to shake her and bring her back to her old self generally. Kano, who knows about her past, is generally the only person who's capable of riling her up and causing genuine upset in her existence.

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Characterization Sample: A post in Exsilium